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When do you give the pass back? Some rows are obviously longer than others so the numbers would be scattered all over the place. I assume they would collect them before you get back in the station? If they are going to be really strict on the loose article policy they need to make it easier to store the items somewhere. I don't bring my phone in the park because I'm always afraid it will break or i'll lose, it but i obviously need my keys. I am not going to buy a locker for the ridiculous prices. They either need to add bins to the rides to place loose items like most parks have or lower the prices of lockers.

Isn't it common sense to have security cameras in the lot? I don't see the logic, it isn't like they don't have the money

I'm just waiting for Hurricane Harbor to finally get one of those drop box type slides. I feel like all of the water parks around here have one of those now. I remember when HH was suppose to get them on The Falls but opted to go with the joke of a slide King Cobra

Nitro, Bizarro, and Superman should all be painted before KK. You don't see KK's track close up unless you ride it, but for the ones I mentioned, you don't even have to ride it to notice how badly they need to be painted. As for your other points, it's too costly to change the launch system. KK is still a popular ride and attracts many people all over the world. As long as it's current state still makes them money...

Oh I understand that it is an opinion. But people have said they don't understand why people object to this project, and this article is from the view of someone who is against it and makes some good points. This part of the article catches by attention: "What’s most disconcerting is how any company or individual could stick to a deforestation plan after listening to experts testify about the devastating environmental impacts, and possible harm to the area’s drinking water supply. That, coupled with the township’s lack of any environmental impact studies to weigh the effects on the public and surrounding environment, is reprehensible." I don't know how much of that is actually true, since again this is an opinion article, not an official statement, but I am interested in finding out. If they really didn't do any environmental impact studies I could see that being a problem.

http://www.app.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/07/08/six-flags-solar-farm-court/103507306/ This is a good article explaining why the current plan to cut down all of the trees is the wrong way to go about this

Seems weird to think that some schools are just getting out now when I've been out for 2 weeks

Still disappointed that they couldn't find a way to do this without cutting down so many trees. It's counter productive to do one thing that helps the environment while doing another thing that damages it. I know that they use the parking lot for events and stuff, but I'm sure they could at least used some of the lot for the panels and left some parts open that way they would cut down less trees.

When I went to the park this year they were just asking people as they walked through if they had phones or keys and were not patting anyone down, maybe they have other days I don't know. But either way, I understand why they don't allow them on the ride but if they are going to do it they need to make the lockers free. It's ridiculous that someone is going to be punished and forced to either pay for a locker or not be able to ride. I never bring my phone into the park anyway because I don't want to lose it, but obviously you are going to bring in keys. When I went my friend bought a locker so I just used theirs to put my stuff in, but I would never buy a locker myself. It's a waste of money.

Went to the park yesterday for the first time of the season and it was very successful. I figured it wouldn't be overly crowded since it was Mother's day but it was a nice day overall and with the rain on Saturday I figured there would be a decent crowd but I was wrong. We arrived at around 11:30 and the lot was pretty empty. We started the day on Skull Mountain where we walked right on. Then we headed over to Nitro which was about a 3 train wait for front row. Then we went over to Batman and walked right on. We went to TDK and we got there when they were about halfway through the pre-show. Next we decided to go over to The Joker, which I had never been on yet. But right as we got in line the ride broke down. One of the workers told us it was because someone held down the button to turn the ride on instead of the dispatch button by accident. S we got out of line and went to Skyscreamer which was about a 5 minute wait. We got back in line for the Joker with about a 5 minute wait. This was my first time on the ride and I thought it was very good. I wish it were longer and we only flipped I think once. But we decided to get back in line and this time flipped 3 times so it was much more enjoyable than the first time. Definitely glad they added this to the park. We took the Skyway and headed over to the other side of the park. We walked right onto Bizarro. I was glad to see the mist on the first drop was working, but it still wasn't working for the corkscrews. We headed to El Toro where it was a station wait. It's definitely starting to show it's age at some parts where it is noticeably bumpy. It seemed worse than usual yesterday. We walked through Safari Discoveries (or whatever they are calling it now) and went over to Kingda Ka, which was a station wait. Next we went on Green Lantern which we walked right on. it's been a while since I have been on it since I always go with people who hate it. I always enjoyed it but this time it really banged my head around. It was about 3:15 and I had to work at 5 so our last ride was Superman which we walked right on. When we got back they announced that the ride was closed due to the weather as some dark clouds were coming in. It started to rain as we got off and we still had to walk all the way back to Bizarro because my friend had got a locker over there to put their stuff in. It was pouring all the way back from Bizarro to the parking lot so we were soaked by the time we got to the car. We were there for about 4 hours and got on everything we wanted to. Couldn't have asked for a better day to go.

And they just announced they are staying open an hour later tonight (til 9pm). I was going to say I wonder why it's so crowded today, but I forgot most schools, unlike mine, are on spring break.

They really need to make lockers free for people to use. It's ridiculous that if you have something like a phone or keys (which almost everyone going probably has one or the other) they would force you to spend money to buy a locker.

http://news.rutgers.edu/news-releases/2011/04/rutgers-board-of-gov-20110405#.WNweV28rLIU I found this article from 2011 about when Rutgers approved building 32 acres of panels over the parking lot and produce 8 mW of power. They said that the cost of the project was about $40 million. Obviously, Six Flags would need more than that (I believe they need about 22mW), so in the end it probably would cost over $100 million. Yeah, that's a lot of money. However, Rutgers in the end actually only ended up paying less than $4 million for the project because of tax credits and SRECs. Here's the process they used as per the article So if Six Flags were to do something similar to that they could certainly end up paying a lot less than the $100 million+ it would seemingly cost to build the solar panels over the lot. Also, the article mentions how because of the electricity savings and SRECs, it would net $28 million dollars over a 20 year period. They are already in the process of repaving the lot now anyway so this would correlate well with that.

A parking garage would certainly be an interesting idea, I doubt they would do it though. Any word on what's going on with this? Last I heard the trial date was moved to 2017, but here we are in March and still no date set.

It says JL is opening summer 2017. Does that mean it won't be ready for Memorial day weekend? They seem to be moving along with construction pretty quickly

Weather is just so hard to predict you really can't blame them. I've been watching the models over the past few days change drastically. Some had the storm to the south giving us nothing while some have consistently been showing the more northern track. There are so many variables that could change make huge changes to the outcome that no one can predict. Regardless, I love snow so this storm is awesome for me. Definitely have over 6 inches and it should still be coming down for another hour or 2

The Joker was closed again today, so I still have yet to ride it. Batman also did something weird. It went got stuck on it's way up the lift hill (not even 1/4 of the way up), and then when it started up again it was moving really slow where it took at least 2 minutes to get the the top. Each train after that was fine. Anyone have an idea of why it did that?

The park had some great concerts between 2010-2012,but ever since then every year there is never anything good

www.app.com/story/news/local/redevelopment/2016/12/20/six-flags-great-adventure-solar-farm-project/95660856/

Matt Kaiser made a post a while back about that and based on his calculations if they out the solar panels were placed in the lots, as well as on top of buildings, it would come out to about 70 acres. So if they did that, there would clearly be a much less amount of trees that would have to be cut to finish the project. Of course they have been strongly opposed to placing them in any lot other than the employee. It seems feasible to me and other places that do it. I even contacted them about it and they told me the parking lot was not suitable for safety concerns, as well as special events and future plans.

http://micromediapubs.com/solar-panel-issue-superior-court/ Interested to see the outcome of this. I just really wish that they could find some other way so that they don't have to removed so many trees.

Didn't walk over that way but now that I think about it I didn't see it running at all while in line for Nitro, so it likely was closed.

Went to the park today for my firs time this year (since I never got a 2016 season pass, but got one for 2017). I was expecting to to be busy since yesterday was rainy and it was a holiday, but it wasn't too bad. I got to the park at about 11:15 and headed over to KK. It was testing at the time so we figured it was going to open soon, but after waiting about 25 minutes, they opened Zumanjaro so we went on that instead and got to go on it twice. KK still was not opened when we got off and I don't believe it ever did open. We then went to El Toro which had a line past the 30 minute sign, but the line moved fast and only took about 20 minutes. We wanted to go on The Joker as I have never been on it before, but it was closed and didn't look like it was going to open anytime soon, so we went to Nitro to end the day. We left a little before 2pm. While we didn't get on a whole lot of rides, we didn't stay too long and the main reason we went was just to validate our passes, so not a bad trip. Superman was also closed, to add onto the list of rides not open.

I've gotten stuck a few different times. I got stuck on the brake run on Superman for about 20 minutes, not fun being stuck in the laying down position for so long.They had to come out and unlock the train manually and then gave us a skip the line pass. Another time I got stuck on the brake run of Nitro for about 25-30 minutes until eventually they came and unlocked each car for us to get out. And the third and final time was when I got stuck on the lift of El Toro, only for about a minute or two.

I use both, honestly I don't even know which I use more, I feel like I just use whichever comes to mind first lol